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Day of Giving radio spot - March 18, 2025
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Shauna Johnson: At West Virginia University, mountaineers go first. University Alumni and Friends will come together March 26th for the 8th WVU Day of Giving, the annual 24-hour fundraising effort organized by the WVU Foundation. Will Green is the Foundation's Senior Vice President of Development and Chief Development Officer.
Will Green: When I think of WVU Day of Giving, I think less about the importance to WVU itself or WVU medicine, and more about what it means for our ability to help others. For our ability to create access to a college education for students in West Virginia, embark on groundbreaking research and provide great clinical care to our patients.
Shauna Johnson: All areas of the university will benefit from gifts during Day of Giving, including student programs, infrastructure, athletics, and more.
Will Green: Scholarships are always in great need. A big part of our mission as a state university and the state university and land-grant University of West Virginia is to provide access to a college education for all students in West Virginia. Providing dollars that help students do that, that provide access to that college education is really important, and that can be by giving to unrestricted scholarship funds, scholarship funds in a certain area, or supporting the new WVU guarantee that was announced by the university back in January.
Shauna Johnson: More than 36,000 gifts have been made on WVU Day of Giving since its launch in 2017, raising more than $96 million.
Will Green: It's really about what these dollars allow us to do for others, to help others, to help first generation college students who may or may not otherwise have an access to a college education to provide great clinical care to patients who otherwise may not be able to access that and research groundbreaking research in a number of areas that are really going to help people around the world.
Shauna Johnson: Find more information about hourly and all-day challenges during Day of Giving on March 26, and give a gift online at dayofgiving.wvu.edu.
Will Green: There's a lot of ways that people can get involved with Day of Giving. It is fun. There are a number of challenges that people can really help to rally for areas and causes that mean something to them.
Shauna Johnson: Let's go. Follow our stories at wvutoday.wvu.edu.
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